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Now Yahweh said to Abram , "
Get out of your country ,
and from your relatives ,
and from your father '
s house ,
to the land that I will show you .
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I will make of you a great nation .
I will bless you and make your name great .
You will be a blessing .
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I will bless those who bless you ,
and I will curse him who curses you .
All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you ."
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So Abram went ,
as Yahweh had spoken to him .
Lot went with him .
Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran .
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Abram took Sarai his wife ,
Lot his brother '
s son ,
all their substance that they had gathered ,
and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran ,
and they went to go into the land of Canaan .
Into the land of Canaan they came .
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Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem ,
to the oak of Moreh .
The Canaanite was then in the land .
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Yahweh appeared to Abram and said , "
I will give this land to your seed {
or ,
offspring }."
He built an altar there to Yahweh ,
who appeared to him .
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He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel ,
and pitched his tent ,
having Bethel on the west ,
and Ai on the east .
There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh .
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Abram traveled ,
going on still toward the South .
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There was a famine in the land .
Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there ,
for the famine was severe in the land .
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It happened ,
when he had come near to enter Egypt ,
that he said to Sarai his wife , "
See now ,
I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at .
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It will happen ,
when the Egyptians will see you ,
that they will say , '
This is his wife .'
They will kill me ,
but they will save you alive .
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Please say that you are my sister ,
that it may be well with me for your sake ,
and that my soul may live because of you ."
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It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt ,
the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful .
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The princes of Pharaoh saw her ,
and praised her to Pharaoh ;
and the woman was taken into Pharaoh '
s house .
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He dealt well with Abram for her sake .
He had sheep ,
cattle ,
male donkeys ,
male servants ,
female servants ,
female donkeys ,
and camels .
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Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai ,
Abram '
s wife .
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Pharaoh called Abram and said , "
What is this that you have done to me ?
Why didn '
t you tell me that she was your wife ?
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Why did you say , '
She is my sister ,'
so that I took her to be my wife ?
Now therefore ,
see your wife ,
take her ,
and go your way ."
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Pharaoh commanded men concerning him ,
and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had .
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Abram went up out of Egypt :
he ,
his wife ,
all that he had ,
and Lot with him ,
into the South .
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Abram was very rich in livestock ,
in silver ,
and in gold .
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He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel ,
to the place where his tent had been at the beginning ,
between Bethel and Ai ,
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to the place of the altar ,
which he had made there at the first .
There Abram called on the name of Yahweh .
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Lot also ,
who went with Abram ,
had flocks ,
and herds ,
and tents .
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The land was not able to bear them ,
that they might live together :
for their substance was great ,
so that they could not live together .
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There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram '
s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot '
s livestock :
and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time .
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Abram said to Lot , "
Please ,
let there be no strife between me and you ,
and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen ;
for we are relatives .
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Isn '
t the whole land before you ?
Please separate yourself from me .
If you go to the left hand ,
then I will go to the right .
Or if you go to the right hand ,
then I will go to the left ."
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Lot lifted up his eyes ,
and saw all the plain of the Jordan ,
that it was well-watered everywhere ,
before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ,
like the garden of Yahweh ,
like the land of Egypt ,
as you go to Zoar .
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So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself .
Lot traveled east ,
and they separated themselves the one from the other .
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan ,
and Lot lived in the cities of the plain ,
and moved his tent as far as Sodom .
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Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh .
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Yahweh said to Abram ,
after Lot was separated from him , "
Now ,
lift up your eyes ,
and look from the place where you are ,
northward and southward and eastward and westward ,
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for all the land which you see ,
I will give to you ,
and to your offspring forever .
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I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth ,
so that if a man can number the dust of the earth ,
then your seed may also be numbered .
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Arise ,
walk through the land in its length and in its breadth ;
for I will give it to you ."
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Abram moved his tent ,
and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre ,
which are in Hebron ,
and built an altar there to Yahweh .
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It happened in the days of Amraphel ,
king of Shinar ,
Arioch ,
king of Ellasar ,
Chedorlaomer ,
king of Elam ,
and Tidal ,
king of Goiim ,
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that they made war with Bera ,
king of Sodom ,
and with Birsha ,
king of Gomorrah ,
Shinab ,
king of Admah ,
and Shemeber ,
king of Zeboiim ,
and the king of Bela (
the same is Zoar ).
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All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (
the same is the Salt Sea ).
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Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer ,
and in the thirteenth year ,
they rebelled .
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In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came ,
and the kings who were with him ,
and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim ,
and the Zuzim in Ham ,
and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim ,
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and the Horites in their Mount Seir ,
to Elparan ,
which is by the wilderness .
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They returned ,
and came to En Mishpat (
the same is Kadesh ),
and struck all the country of the Amalekites ,
and also the Amorites ,
that lived in Hazazon Tamar .
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The king of Sodom ,
and the king of Gomorrah ,
and the king of Admah ,
and the king of Zeboiim ,
and the king of Bela (
the same is Zoar )
went out ;
and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim ;
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against Chedorlaomer king of Elam ,
and Tidal king of Goiim ,
and Amraphel king of Shinar ,
and Arioch king of Ellasar ;
four kings against the five .
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Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits ;
and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled ,
and they fell there ,
and those who remained fled to the hills .
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They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and all their food ,
and went their way .
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They took Lot ,
Abram '
s brother '
s son ,
who lived in Sodom ,
and his goods ,
and departed .
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One who had escaped came and told Abram ,
the Hebrew .
Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre ,
the Amorite ,
brother of Eshcol ,
and brother of Aner ;
and these were allies of Abram .
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When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive ,
he led out his trained men ,
born in his house ,
three hundred and eighteen ,
and pursued as far as Dan .
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He divided himself against them by night ,
he and his servants ,
and struck them ,
and pursued them to Hobah ,
which is on the left hand of Damascus .
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He brought back all the goods ,
and also brought back his relative ,
Lot ,
and his goods ,
and the women also ,
and the people .
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The king of Sodom went out to meet him ,
after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him ,
at the valley of Shaveh (
that is ,
the King '
s Valley ).
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Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine :
and he was priest of God Most High .
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He blessed him ,
and said , "
Blessed be Abram of God Most High ,
possessor of heaven and earth :
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and blessed be God Most High ,
who has delivered your enemies into your hand ."
Abram gave him a tenth of all .
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The king of Sodom said to Abram , "
Give me the people ,
and take the goods to yourself ."
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Abram said to the king of Sodom , "
I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh ,
God Most High ,
possessor of heaven and earth ,
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that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours ,
lest you should say , '
I have made Abram rich .'
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I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten ,
and the portion of the men who went with me :
Aner ,
Eshcol ,
and Mamre .
Let them take their portion ."
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After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision ,
saying , "
Don '
t be afraid ,
Abram .
I am your shield ,
your exceedingly great reward ."